RUSH: This is fabulous. Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists. Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: 'You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials'...

RUSH: Try this headline: "Al-Qaeda in Control of Somalia; US Won't Intervene." We went to Somalia. We went to Somalia to feed people who were being starved by the warlord Mohammed Farrah Sahib Skyhook Aideed, and when the going got tough, and we were on the verge of victory, Bill Clinton pulled us out, leading to the famous book and movie: Black Hawk Down -- and, by the way, Osama bin Laden has said numerous times (on ABC TV in one instance) that when he saw us pull out is when he realized we'd...

RUSH: This is a story, interestingly, from the Las Vegas Review Journal. "Democrats Leave Bono Disappointed -- Anti-poverty activist gets no promise of funds." By the way, speaking of Africa, do you know who's made the biggest difference in Africa, causing a number of deaths are incalculable? That would be Rachel Carson who succeeded (she's no longer around) in getting rid of DDT. Hello malaria, perhaps AIDS. Who knows what kind of pestilence now runs around and rules Africa simply because one...

RUSH: Paul in Albuquerque, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: Mega snowing-like-crazy dittos from New Mexico.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I wanted to talk a little bit about Hillary, an opponent of hers that nobody's really talking too much about, and that's our governor here, Bill Richardson --
RUSH: (sigh)
CALLER -- and, you know, different ones have said and you've made comments in the...

RUSH: How many of you are keeping up with the story of Mrs. Bush's, the first lady, cancer, her malignant skin cancer, tumor, removed from her right shin in early November? The Drive-By Media is seething because they weren't told in November. I have a sample story here from Terence Hunt of al-AP. "The White House on Tuesday defended Laura Bush's decision not to disclose she had a skin cancer tumor removed from her right shin in early November. ... [U]nlike her husband, the first lady is not an...

RUSH: From the UK Daily Mail: "Children under ten think being a celebrity is the very best thing in the world, but they do not think quite as much of God, a survey has revealed." They took a poll of just under 1500 crumb crunchers over there, and the poll ranked God "as their tenth favorite thing in the world, with celebrity, good looks, and being rich at one, two, and three respectively. It is the second year running that God has come in at #10 in the annual survey of National Kids Day, but being...

RUSH: "Hillary Clinton says that she wouldn't have voted for the Iraq war if she knew then what she knows now. As she continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democrat nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she wouldn't have voted that way if she knew everything she knows now. Now, she's been asked very often if she regrets her vote authorizing military action, and she unusually...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If I knew then what I know now, I'd never have supported the war on poverty that destroyed the inner city family."
"The president of the United States cannot rewind the TiVo and go back to before. All presidents -- I would include Clinton in this -- do the best they can with the information they have at the time."
"If you have a young kid, and you think they're oriented toward becoming a celebrity, don't be a celebrity parent....

RUSH: I mentioned this shortly after the election, earlier this month. I admittedly didn't spend a whole lot of time on it because I wasn't sure how accurate it was, but now the story has reappeared in the Washington Times today. "The Bush administration has sent signals since last month's elections that the president is prepared to accept some tax increases on upper-income families, worrying congressional Republicans and fiscal conservative watchdogs who say he will compromise with Democrats...

RUSH: This is fabulous. Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists. Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: 'You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials'...

RUSH: Hollywood, California, Ryan, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Fine. Thank you, sir.
CALLER: It's amazing I'm talking to you. I've got big stories to tell all my friends now. I just had a comment on Miss America. Everyone I heard call in seems to want to punish her for having a few drinks and --
RUSH: There's only been one caller.
CALLER: Two.
RUSH: No, no, no. There's only been one caller. Nobody wants to punish her.
CALLER:...

RUSH: Donald Trump hijacked all three cable networks this morning shortly after 11 o'clock for one of the funniest -- albeit most ridiculous -- displays I have seen. You can say it was pathetic.
It was. It had us cringing here. The whole thing just had us cringing. A little after 11 o'clock today Trump was to announce the fate of the current Miss USA, Tara Conner, and ultimately, folks, the verdict here is that New York City is to blame. She's just a young girl from Kentucky. She came...

You remember the guy, Jeff from Solon, Ohio? He's was the guy everybody thought was tricking me. His mother wouldn't let him spend any money on Allen Brothers steaks, and so he called here, and everybody thought he was angling for a freebie, and people (and you know who you are) responded in an e-mail with sufficient anger, mad at me that I didn't see this obvious trick and succumbed. Well, he's been listening and he's fed up with all of these allegations that have been made by some of you people....

RUSH: Joyce in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Merry Christmas from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: Rush, I called to ask you what tack you think I should take -- or whether I should just do my regular, old, conservative shut-up routine. My son's ten. They showed "An Inconvenient Truth" to his class last week --
RUSH: Oh, no. No!
CALLER: -- under the unit of learning about weather and...